Meaningful choices, political supply, and institutional effectiveness

Weßels, Bernhard; Schmitz, Hermann

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2007.11.010

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“…Furthermore, this influence may be contextually reinforced whenever the territorial dimension gains salience in the national political agenda, as is apparently the case in Catalonia since the turn of the millennium, when the level of party polarization along center‐periphery issues––which generally stands above polarization along the left‐right dimension––started to register a sharp increase (Medina, ). Consistent with this speculation, past research at a comparative level has found that party‐system polarization is associated with the diffusion, anchoring, and electoral impact of ideological identities (Freire, ; van der Eijk et al, ; Wessels & Schmitt, ).…”

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The Formation of Left‐Right Identification: Pathways and Correlates of Parental Influence

Rico

Jennings

2015

Political Psychology

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Given the significance of the left‐right dimension as one of the most frequently employed capping term of ideological thought in most western democracies, the question arises as to how people come to identify themselves along this continuum. Drawing on a set of parent‐child pairs located in Catalonia, we seek to determine whether the processes found elsewhere with respect to the intergenerational transmission of partisanship and issue stances also apply to left‐right ideology, in a novel context characterized by the presence of a distinctive, partially cross‐cutting dimension based on center‐periphery loyalties. Results provide strong support for the principles of the direct transmission model as derived from social learning theory, while also showing the significant role of parents' place identities in conditioning the passing on of left‐right orientations.

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Section: Theoretical Considerationsmentioning

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The Formation of Left‐Right Identification: Pathways and Correlates of Parental Influence

Rico

Jennings

2015

Political Psychology

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“…In the context of elections, ''voice'' can be re-cast to refer to whether an individual was able to participate in the election, and ''equal treatment'' to whether all individuals have equal influence. In addition to these characteristics transported from the judicial context, elections often range in the quantity and quality of alternatives available to individuals (e.g., Diamond 2002;Wessels and Schmitt 2008), and this is directly affected by how candidates are nominated (e.g., Kennedy 2002). Thus, the nature of ''choice'' (captured by nomination processes) may also affect perceptions of electoral fairness.…”

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The Portability of Electoral Procedural Fairness: Evidence from Experimental Studies in China and the United States

Wilking

2010

Polit Behav

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Elections are now a common feature of countries across regime types, yet we know little about what leads people to perceive an election as fair, or how the democratic context shapes the ingredients of fairness judgments. While the conduct of a process is most important for perceptions of fairness in established democracies, ''procedural fairness'' may not travel to non-democracies, where economic outcomes occasionally take precedence over procedure. Additionally, individual level characteristics, such as political engagement, may also shape how people view the fairness of elections. Using original experiments conducted in the United States and China, I find procedural considerations are most important for fairness judgments, across democratic contexts and largely independent of political engagement.

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“…It relates to voter perceptions of government responsiveness (Kölln et al, 2014) and is reflected in what Downs (1957) has labelled the 'expected party differential', which is defined as 'the difference between the utility income [a citizen] actually received […] and the one he would have received if the opposition had been in power' (Downs, 1957: 40). Understood in a broader sense, this notion of party differentials captures in fact any form of perceived party differences including not only policy, but also perceived differences in performance-based assessments and evaluations of party leaders (see Blais et al, 2000;Wessels and Schmitt, 2008). If they do not believe that government turnover will make a difference, citizens are unlikely to punish incumbents by voting for an opposition party.…”

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Corruption performance voting and the electoral context

Ecker

Glinitzer

Meyer

2015

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Fighting corruption is a vital aspect of good governance. When assessing government performance voters should thus withdraw electoral support from government parties that turn a blind eye to or even engage in corrupt practices. Whereas most accounts of performance-based voting focus on economic outcomes, we analyse whether and to what extent voters punish incumbents for high levels of corruption. Using data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, we find that while voters perceiving high levels of corruption punish incumbents, corruption performance voting depends on individual-level attributes and the electoral context: it is most likely for non-partisans, for voters who believe that government turnover will bring about change, and in systems where corruption is a salient issue. Yet, corruption performance voting is not moderated by the clarity of political responsibility. Studying these conditions helps us to understand why corruption is more persistent in some contexts than in others.

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Meaningful choices, political supply, and institutional effectiveness

Cited by 66 publications

References 14 publications

The Formation of Left‐Right Identification: Pathways and Correlates of Parental Influence

The Formation of Left‐Right Identification: Pathways and Correlates of Parental Influence

The Portability of Electoral Procedural Fairness: Evidence from Experimental Studies in China and the United States

Corruption performance voting and the electoral context

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